Commemorating Trauma: The Paris Commune and Its Cultural Aftermath
Peter Starr
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Description for Commemorating Trauma: The Paris Commune and Its Cultural Aftermath
Hardback. The bloody events of the Paris Commune in 1871 traumatized France. In this study of cultural memory, the author draws on a range of sources to understand the resonating questions about the terrible year. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 22. Weight in Grams: 468.
Nothing says more about a culture than the way it responds to deeply traumatic events. The Reign of Terror, America's Civil War, the Holocaust, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Kennedy assassination, September 11th-watershed moments such as these can be rich sounding boards for the cultural historian patient enough to tease out the traumatic event's complex cultural resonances. This book is about one such moment in the history of modern France. The so-called Terrible Year began with the French army's crushing defeat at Sedan and the fall of the Second Empire in September of 1870, ... Read more
Nothing says more about a culture than the way it responds to deeply traumatic events. The Reign of Terror, America's Civil War, the Holocaust, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Kennedy assassination, September 11th-watershed moments such as these can be rich sounding boards for the cultural historian patient enough to tease out the traumatic event's complex cultural resonances. This book is about one such moment in the history of modern France. The so-called Terrible Year began with the French army's crushing defeat at Sedan and the fall of the Second Empire in September of 1870, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823226030
SKU
V9780823226030
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About Peter Starr
Peter Starr is Professor of French and Comparative Literature and College Dean of Undergraduate Programs at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Logics of Failed Revolt: French Theory after May `68.
Reviews for Commemorating Trauma: The Paris Commune and Its Cultural Aftermath
A solid, well-researched, well-argued book that sits masterfully at an intersection of French history, politics, literature, and culture.
-Lawrence Schehr
University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana
Indispensable reading for anyone working on the Commune and on the second half of the nineteenth century in France.
-David Bell
Duke University
Commemorating Trauma is a detailed studiy whose ... Read more
-Lawrence Schehr
University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana
Indispensable reading for anyone working on the Commune and on the second half of the nineteenth century in France.
-David Bell
Duke University
Commemorating Trauma is a detailed studiy whose ... Read more